Hello Mom! (and friends/other family)
Sooo I know that you were probably expecting this letter last week...heh heh ya.... moving on!
So real quick before I forget again, I GOT PICKED FOR AN A CAPELLA QUARTET PERFORMING AT ZONE CONFERENCE!!! I AM SO PUMPED! Thankfully I'm only performing in front of 1/2 the mission, yay. But ya! We are singing this super boss song called the Gentle Healer (hmmmm, I wonder who the Gentle Healer is...?) And I get to sing as a Baritone! I've never done that before so this should be interesting. Actually looking over the email again I'm the lowest (voice wise) singer in the group (with Elder Hendricks being the highest) So this should be even more interesting. Sorry for the spastic handwriting, I'm a little excited.
Oh! funny story but the other day I ate this whole bag of candy that Elder Wessendorf left only to find out that it wasn't candy. It was a bag of essential oil cough drops. (I wondered why it had the word Breathe all over it) Ya :) I won't be getting sick for awhile.
Anyways sorry I need to head off to a lesson, dinner break just finished, bye!
So just got back, it was awesome! We just put Rachel (Elder Guthrie's cousin) on date for April 16th! She is so excited to be sealed to her family! It's amazing to see!
Let's see so quick update on investigators. Andrea got transferred over to the sisters at our bishop's request. I am a little sad because I won't get to teach her anymore, but at least she is progressing :)
Oh! So get this, today during lunch I did a little bit of organizing on my ipad and now I have all of the PDF's in my adobe acrobat app all nice and neat in folders. We'll see how long it will last. But for now it looks nice. And I can actually find stuff. But outside of technology I also organized our kitchen/food cupboards/pantry and also our supplies closet. It all looks so nice (for now).
Of course, here I am going on and on about things that I have organized and yet, have I touched my day bag? No. Have I even fathomed cleaning out the fridge/freezer? Heck No. So there is still Definitely Room for Improvement. Maybe someday I'll work up the courage to brave the Fridge/Freezer. I think the biggest problem is that last time I spent a few hours cleaning it (after I had thrown old stuff away) because of all the blood that was in it. Elder Wessendorf had left some beef in there to thaw out for 3 weeks, and thaw it did. All over the fridge. So I cleaned that while he trained. I can't even imagine that garage freezer you cleaned (a couple summers ago). You poor soul. You will be blessed for that, I know it.
Well time to makes some calls, I'll continue in a few, bye! Oh, nevermind. Deer Lodge is still planning, they said to give them 5. Ok!
So I just thought of an awesome benefit for not having a car this week, We don't have to pay any money to clean it! Apparently after they repair the car, they detail it too :). Also, I heard that Elder Baird (our vehicle coordinator) should be mailing us a gas card soon so hopefully I'll only have to pay for gas 1/2 of this month too! Thankfully I will get reimbursed for this month :)
Oh! Here's Deer Lodge calling now :)
Well that took a little longer than expected. Great call though. Deer Lodge is doing great! They still have 4 baptismal interviews for me to do in a few weeks, I am so stoked!
So being with Elder Hendricks has been a blast! I know it's a little wrong but I can't wait for our exchange next week. I'm not trying to be rude, but it'll be nice to be with a companion who I don't feel like I'm dragging around. Don't get me wrong, I love Elder Wessendorf, and I'm finding a love for Elder Guthrie, but it's hard and it'll be nice for a quick breather :). Besides it'll be good for Elder Guthrie. I'm honestly not sure how much he likes me. The other day he told me that the only thing that he has learned from being with me is patience. So it is hard for him. I'm trying to show him as much love as I can, try to laugh with him, I just don't know how receptive he is :/. Don't get me wrong, we don't argue, fight, get contentious, I've had worse, he's dealing with me okay but that's just it. I feel like he's just dealing with me. Oh well. I'll just keep on smothering him with love :).
Other than that though, I really am doing Fantastic! I probably should quickly get ready for bed. Goodnight! Sleep tight! I'll most likely kill Wesley in the morning!
Good Morning! It snowed last night. Wow. Thankfully it wasn't too much. Just enough to make everything look white again. I never thought that I would miss green grass so much. It's interesting.
Wow. So today is my first District meeting with Elder Hendricks. I honestly hope that it goes alright. I know it will since the spirit's there, but still. Sorry, just a random little thought.
Can you believe that Elder Basham is the District Leader over a district? I was laughing so hard when I found out, that's so perfect :).
Sorry, I'm basically just rambling right now. Well, I'm off to a District Meeting! Love You!
So this day was pretty good. Honestly not too much to report. Oh I did get into an argument with my companion today. :/ Granted it wasn't a Big argument, but he wouldn't believe me that there is a better chocolate out there than m&m's and Hershey's. Seriously, he grimaced at some Ghiradelli hot cocoa I was making and told me straight up that their chocolate sucks and the only good chocolate is Hershey's. Naturally a heated debate ensued. It ended with an agree to disagree. I honestly just feel bad for the guy.
Tomorrow is going to be awesome though! I'm so pumped! We have a lesson in the morning with a self-referral couple who are very interested in the gospel, it's going to be amazing!
Mom, you are truly the best, I am so thankful for all that you do! God Bless!
-Never Give up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett
PS - A less active had Space Balls playing the other day and now Elder Guthrie and I find ourselves quoting it. :) It's bad.
Sorry, That last page looked like an ending, haha. Well I guess I'm not done yet. Sorry it's taken me so long to get around to this, it's been mostly me just being busy and procrastinating, but also not knowing how to talk about Elder Guthrie...
So I can't remember if it was a day or 2 days after I finished that last part that I had an interview with President Wadsworth. A lot of things had happened that morning, we had tried to start weekly planning but with every missionary and their dog in the zone all gathered at our stake center for interviews, it was a little distracting. So after an hour of Extremely unproductive weekly planning we went off to the hospital for Elder Guthrie's Dr appointment. It was then that we found out that my poor companion was going to need surgery. So we went back to the church, told President and Sister Wadsworth, then both had our interviews. What happened in mine blew off my socks. I went inside the room and sat down. Instead of starting off with the usual questions, he started asking me about my experience with Elder Guthrie. After a few remarks, he told me that he was so proud of how I had treated my companion the last 2 months. After that we both discussed how much he has grown and while he is still Elder Guthrie, he has definitely grown, and now actually has self worth and confidence.
I'm not writing this to brag or anything, I just feel like I complained about him a little too much and just thought that you should hear about that side of him. Anyway, I really should just send this letter off. Thank you for all that you do! While I am admittedly a little sad that I won't be seeing you all in a week and a half, I am completely overjoyed that I get to stay and continue to further the work of the Lord :)
Love you Lots!
Never Give Up, Never Surrender!
-Elder Berrett
PS Sorry it's not 10 pages :P
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